Synodic month length 29.48 days

Length of current 908 lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 25 minutes. It is 1 hour and 37 minutes longer than next lunation 909 length.

Lunation length shorter than mean

Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 19 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 50 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.

Lunar orbit position on 15 June 2073 Thursday 12:00 UTC

True anomaly ∠250°

This lunation true anomaly is ∠250°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠284.5°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).

Moon in perigee

Moon is reaching point of perigee on this date at 21:26, this is 15 days after last apogee on 31 May 2073 at 06:54 in ♈ Aries. Lunar orbit is starting to get wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth for 12 days ahead, until it will get to the point of next apogee on 28 June 2073 at 01:09 in ♈ Aries.

Distance to Moon 367 448 km

This perigee Moon is 367 448 km(228 322 mi) away from Earth. It is 4 940 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 2 908 km farther than the closest perigee of 21st century.

Moon after ascending node

4 days after its ascending node on 10 June 2073 at 22:06 in ♌ Leo, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 8 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 23 June 2073 at 19:45 in ♒ Aquarius.

Draconic month

Moon before southern standstill

7 days after previous North standstill on 7 June 2073 at 13:47 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠19.587°. Next 4 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-19.607° in the next southern standstill on 20 June 2073 at 11:20 in ♑ Capricorn.